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Tactics and Vectors: Dedicated to Promoting Field Studies on Flight Tactics and Navigation of Migrating Butterflies In North America

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Male Monarch Butterfly

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"Tactics and Vectors" was established to encourage, coordinate, help analyze data arising from, and report the results of, field studies on flight tactics and navigation of migratory butterflies in North America. Participation in the Tactics and Vectors research program is open to all individuals interested in helping to solve some of the mysteries of butterfly migration.

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Butterfly Flight Simulator (Grob-103, 2-place glider)

David Gibo, Insect Behavior Group, Dept. of Zoology,
University of Toronto at Mississauga, Erindale College, Ontario, Canada, L5L 1C6

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1998-99 Updates and revisions by Esther Atkinson, University of Toronto

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Last updated on October 25, 1998

Changes and Additions

October 1:  Tables 1998  I a, and  I b, and Table 1995   I   in Pilot Reports Section

October 3:  More work on Table 1995   I   in Pilot Reports Section

October 4:  Tables IV a and IV b added to 1998 Database

October 11:  Analysis of   1987 Georgia Field Data. Tables I - XIII - Daily vanishing bearings

October 16:   Analysis of   1987 Georgia Field Data Data. Pooled Data Tables I and II - Population mean bearings and two measures of preferred direcion in 8 different wind conditions

October 16:   Analysis of  1987 Georgia Field Data. Tables XIV - XXII - Vanishing bearings in 8 different wind conditions

October 24:   Analysis of  1988 Georgia Field Data.  Tables I - VII - Daily vanishing bearings

October 24:   Analysis of  1988 Georgia Field Data.  Tables VIII - XII - Vanishing bearngs in 5 different wind conditons

Cotober 24:   analyses of 1988 Georgia Field Data.  Tables XIII- XIV - vanishing bearings for monacrchs flying in Calm and for those flying above the radiation (nocturnal) inversion.